Roger Bruns: Encyclopedia of Cesar Chavez, Kartoniert / Broschiert
Encyclopedia of Cesar Chavez
- The Farm Workers' Fight for Rights and Justice
(soweit verfügbar beim Lieferanten)
- Verlag:
- Bloomsbury Academic, 02/2024
- Einband:
- Kartoniert / Broschiert
- Sprache:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9798765120842
- Artikelnummer:
- 11673514
- Umfang:
- 390 Seiten
- Gewicht:
- 454 g
- Maße:
- 254 x 178 mm
- Stärke:
- 25 mm
- Erscheinungstermin:
- 22.2.2024
- Hinweis
-
Achtung: Artikel ist nicht in deutscher Sprache!
Klappentext
This book is a unique, single-volume treatment offering original source material on the life, accomplishments, disappointments, and lasting legacy of one of American history's most celebrated social reformers-Cesar Chavez.
Two decades after Cesar Chavez's death, this timely book chronicles the drive for a union of one of American society's most exploited groups-farm workers. Encyclopedia of Cesar Chavez is a valuable one-volume source based on the most recent research and available documentation. Historian Roger Bruns documents how Chavez and his United Farm Workers (UFW), against formidable odds, organized farm laborers into a force that for the first time successfully took on the might of California's agribusiness interests to achieve greater wages and better working conditions.
Set against the backdrop of the 1960s, a time of assassinations, war protests, civil rights battles, and reform efforts for poor and minority citizens, the approximately 100 entries in this encyclopedia provide a glimpse into the events, organizations, men and women, and recurring themes that impacted the life of Cesar Chavez. It also contains a section of primary documentation-useful not only to enhance the understanding of this social and political movement, but also as source material for students.